Dispatcher donates life-saving kidney to colleague

The 35-year-old mom was on a long waiting list, until a longtime co-worker and acquaintance decided to help make sure she lives to see her daughter grow up

CBS Los Angeles

BEAUMONT, Calif. — Two Riverside County Sheriff’s dispatchers are forever connected after a life-saving transplant.

Jennifer Hall and Michelle Nelson started out as coworkers who were not even friends outside of the office. When Nelson watched a video posted on Facebook of Hall’s daughter singing in the car, she hoped she could stay alive long enough to watch her own young daughter do the same.

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Nelson was one of 100,000 people in the United States in desperate need of a kidney. The 35-year-old mom was placed on a waiting list, and knew it could take years — time she didn’t have — to find a donor.

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